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Definition of Sackcloths
1. sackcloth [n] - See also: sackcloth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sackcloths
Literary usage of Sackcloths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, According to the Vatican Text by Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1844)
"5 And the men of Nineve believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloths,
from the greatest of them to the least of them. ..."
2. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1836)
"And they ordained fasts, and girded themselves with sackcloths, and prayed to
the Lord God of their fathers, who heard their cries from the dwelling of his ..."
3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"A man may chew aloes, or lie upon the ground, or wear sackcloths if he have a
mind to it, and if he finds it good in his circumstances and to his purposes ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"'Death and mourning was their meat; sackcloths passed along the street; Hum was
changed to gloom profound; Bells were tolling all around. ..."
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